January 28, 2012 — The night protesters clashed with police in downtown Oakland, the college kids on my train home from San Francisco were counting on their fingers how many of their friends had been arrested. At the time it went over my head. Then Monday morning I turned up

Either this is well placed street theatre or this chick really hates Chinatown. Alexandra Liss sent this my way. Apparently it was this tour guide’s last day and the German visitors who were staying with Alex were on this tour. They took this video. The vociferousness of her rant is kinda

  We here at BrokeAssStuart.com like to show love to the people who make cities like San Francisco and New York special. This is our chance to hip you to some of the strange, brilliant, and unique folks who populate these towns and give them the character that people from

This press release just came across my desk (I mean, in my email inbox, but you know, whatever). I’m cutting and pasting it here so I don’t muck things up. On Weds. Oct. 22, the first time in 48 years that the San Francisco Bay Guardian will not deliver a new issue, city

  Sat, Nov 1 2014 – 7:00pm – Mario Batali in conversation with Tyler Florence @ Nourse Theatre. Tickets can be purchased HERE! Every ticket comes with Batali’s newest cookbook, America – Farm to Table! Beef cheek ravioli with fresh squab livers and black truffles, bucatini all’Amatriciana with house-cured guanciale, farfalle

  Ten homeschooled teens take an exploratory deep dive into the realm of The Little Mermaid, abandoning Disney’s happy ending for the explicit traumas of Hans Christian Andersen’s original. Not that there’s any correspondence between the pain of becoming an adult and the pain of having your tongue cut out

  On Saturday, October 25, 2014 catch the Detroit record producer Moodymann, known for his soulful productions and iconic Afro. Though he generally keeps a low-profile, refusing interviews and limiting promotional material, Dixon is considered to have ‘developed hybrid modes of recording and performance incorporating analog and digital media’. Tickets

For four nights only this Halloween, experience Un-Scripted Theater Company’s  “A Murder Most Un-Scripted”. Set in Agatha Christie’s world, the who, what, and where (and the murderer!), change nightly in this 2-hour fully-improvised murder mystery. Everyone has something to hide…especially the killer. Will you determine “whodunit” before our sleuth does? Un-Scripted Theater Company brings their